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Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 20, 2011, 12:16 PM UTC

messel wrote: post #58

hieronymusN wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facepalm - you're right, my regexes got a little too aggressive. I've reposted it with the formatting intact. I also posted a version as PDF - again it has the linked TOC which makes it easier to navigate. The PDF isn't as nice as the HTML though. [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc

Do you have code handy to convert from html (with a TOC) to epub? I looked up some python examples to start with: python epub docs http://www.egofile.com/2010/01/convert-openofficeorg-writer-... http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/se...

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Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

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Post by ascendant » Fri, May 20, 2011, 12:44 PM UTC

heresy wrote: post #55

jmonegro wrote: post #32

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/52729281/The-Best-Of-edw519

Ah, this is annoying. Selling is only allowed to people in the US? What on earth for? I realize it's available free but I wanted to buy for the principle of the thing.

Just as a shot in the dark, I imagine there's probably a mountain of legal paperwork to do business overseas that they just didn't want to deal with.

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

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Post by hieronymusN » Fri, May 20, 2011, 1:20 PM UTC

messel wrote: post #58

hieronymusN wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facepalm - you're right, my regexes got a little too aggressive. I've reposted it with the formatting intact. I also posted a version as PDF - again it has the linked TOC which makes it easier to navigate. The PDF isn't as nice as the HTML though. [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc

Do you have code handy to convert from html (with a TOC) to epub? I looked up some python examples to start with: python epub docs http://www.egofile.com/2010/01/convert-openofficeorg-writer-... http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/se...

[EPUB] http://bit.ly/kQYAZQ

I made this one with Calibre, and its optimized for the iPad. Let me know how it looks for you.

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

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Post by cheriot » Fri, May 20, 2011, 1:34 PM UTC

Nemisis7654 wrote: post #41

First of all, this is awesome. Thank you! Secondly, I am reading through this and came across this: 14. Should I still be a programmer? "I lack the fundamentals of Computer Science, the things every programmer should know: Algo's, Data Structures, Operating Systems an understanding of compilers and being profficient with linux." Relax. That's true for 99% of all programmers. I feel like I am in the same exact boat as…

They are fundamental. LEARN THEM. They're actually not that hard.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

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Post by briannewman » Fri, May 20, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

Thank you Ed, this is amazing!

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

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Post by Tycho » Sat, May 21, 2011, 6:40 PM UTC

This feels like a treasure trove. Actually works out as a decent format for a book, I think. I saved the page as a webarchive to dropbox and opened it on the iPad with GoodReader. Good reading on the train. Cheers edw519.